...reading/interpreting the file as UTF8 (and it actually is UTF8 encoded)? Nevertheless, good luck...

Thanks for the help, Stefan.  The problem is much deeper than that.  I get input...

Just realized that Notepad on XP works even without the BOM now. You can reproduce...

...to
recognize an UTF8 file. For example, the (Notepad) BOM for UTF8 is
ef bb...

...but I have found a wall with UTF8, again.  Perhaps, some of you may be...

...char[]))
#         writefln("Literal \"%s\"c is a UTF8  string",
#                   va_arg!(char[])(_argptr));
#     else if...

...giving a multibyte result which isn't UTF8. FormatMessageW gives a unicode result AKA UTF...

...ASCII. Do you? In this case then UTF8 makes no difference, since binary will likely...

...work with array indices. Using 'in' with dchars or UTF8 fragments would be nice, too.

...they really needed some change (especially the UTF8 decode() function). I will happily do that...